
TheBadAndTheUgly.com reports that work is commencing on the 'Mandrake' movie, based on Lee Falk's classic magician turned crime fighter, and one of the Ultimate Fighting Challenge champs has a prominent role in the film.
Writes one of their scoopers:
Hey guys…just heard something interesting on our local radio station here in Columbus, OH concerning Mandrake. The station (QFM 96.3) had Randy Couture from UFC on and were talking to him about general UFC items when he said he was traveling to China in the next few weeks to start filming the movie Mandrake. He said he had quite a few scenes in the movie and that it was being billed as a cross between James Bond and Harry Houdini. He was pretty pumped about it.
Actor Jonathan Rhys Meyers ('The Tudors') plays the title role in the film which is directed by Chuck Russell ('The Scorpion King').